If no guideline costs existed, cost prizes were estimated using real costs and tariffs.
56 The competition and rewards elements of GoActive are based on gaining points for participation (not skill), private individual level points to achieve low cost prizes (for personal achievement) and class-based competition circulated around school to engage students and teachers in the process.
To increase participation in the survey we offered a low-cost prize draw to respondents with book tokens for a random number of respondents.
We tried to increase the response to the survey sending two reminders and offered a low-cost prize draw with book tokens.
To increase dissemination of CM into community practice, two community treatment programs collaborated with university faculty investigators to design, implement, and evaluate low-cost, prize-based CM interventions delivered by treatment staff using Petry's (2000) fishbowl technique.
Orders ignored and lapses in judgment have cost me prize money over the years.
For Kemkers, it was as if the clock malfunctioned on these Winter Olympics, grinding to a halt last Tuesday when his gaffe during the men's 10,000 meters cost his prize skater, Sven Kramer, a second gold medal.
In America, Britain and Australia, government agencies have held competitions to encourage small designers or non-profit outfits to find ingenious things to do with the stuff.In 2008 the city of Washington, DC, a trailblazer in the field of open data, sponsored a contest called "Apps for Democracy"—with $50,000 in costs and prize money which produced 47 applications.
The Food Dudes program increases in-school F/V consumption, but the cost of prizes might be an adoption barrier.
The competition was run for three seasons without a sponsor due to the league covering the tournament costs and prize money, but was unsustainable and resulted in it being cancelled for one season in 1998 99 before being re-established in 1999 with a new sponsor.
The X Prize cost just $2.5m to provide a prize pot of $10m for the first private reusable spacecraft, but succeeded in leveraging $100m of private investment from people going after the prize – helping form the basis for a space industry now worth $1bn.
